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He rubbed my arm and kissed my shoulder. His pale blue eyes were sad and he seemed so far away. I watched him silently. "Gloria, people don't come back after they die. They're gone forever. I guess I should have taken you to the funeral. But, since it was in Juárez, I just couldn't think. It was too hard. But we have each other. " He tried to comfort me. We sat in the living room listening to the radio until the clock struck nine. Palm was tired Page 27 and couldn't wait for my brothers. They would come home whenever they did.

All the boys and I were angry at her. Luís continued to seek her out until Chillo beat him up and Teresa told Luís to forget her. Then Chillo se la robó. He stole her virginity and made her his. Luís was heartbroken. Luís was sick for about two weeks. By the end of the summer, he had quit his job; he lost weight and la Tamalera was beside herself. She took him to a clinic downtown and was told that Luís was sad. But she already knew that. Then she asked López to use his herbs or give him a treatment.

It was big. We could all just speculate on what the purple heart looked like. In the afternoon, we made our plan as we ate some cajeta, soft caramel candy that came in a round wooden box, that López had brought from Juárez. As we scooped the caramel out with a broken part of the lid, we watched the apartment out of the corners of our eyes. Flaco said that Señora Olga was going over to the Canton Grocery on Stanton Street and she would be gone for a while. We were all afraid of Señora Olga. She was a mean, loud, dark brown woman with a large body that shimmered like a Russian brown bear dancing on its hind legs when she walked.